1. Bits and pieces: Electronic Presence Logs (1)

    December 5, 2009 by jerome

    * the idea of this logging application is to gather in one single place all activities around a website and represent them so that it highlights positive and negative relationships: publishing of post/page, use of twitter, facebook, mailinglist, etc. in order to be able to monitor and analyse an electronic presence, the traffic influence online activities are having – what are the other aspects that could be monitored? Beside the AdminLog plugin being developped, a few notes and interesting thing found during researches:

    Realtime Monitoring seems to be essential – that’s one of the downside of using Google Analytics. At the same time, the realtime aspects might create a curtain in front of the bigger picture of a larger time scale for monitoring activities.

    Google Analytics has an API
    most certainly useful to gather more data beside the realtime echniques we are already using.
    http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/
    http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataLibraries.html

    Google Analytics released Intelligence; their new automatic alert system.
    the system automatically draw attention to unexpected events, based on re-occurences of values. If the bounce rate suddenly is sky rocketting, the system will notice the alteration in the pattern and trigger an alert. Their custom alerting system lets admins set custom alerts parameters; but i haven’t been succesful so far with it…

    Conversion rate
    conversion rate is the ratio of visitors who convert casual content views or website visits into desired actions based on subtle or direct requests (Wikipedia: Conversion Rate)
    Wat are the relevant actions? So far, for DMO i have been considering the following actions as being relevant:
    Add to cart, Checkout, Mailinglist subscription, Twitter follow

    The new facebook privacy system seems to introduce stats f consultation – ?

    Flickr has a nice but limited statistics tool; interesting to monitor and glue with the Google data on referrer to monitor the conversion from Flickr. API?
    http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.activity.userPhotos.html


  2. Web design with usability in mind

    February 21, 2008 by jerome

    via http://www.findability.org/archives/000195.php
    Mental Models There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product—but you can increase your odds. One of the best ways is to understand users’ reasons for doing things. Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. Adaptive Path co- founder Indi Young has written a roll-up-your-sleeves book for designers, managers, and anyone else interested in making design strategic, and successful. http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/mental-models/
    Building Findable Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond (Paperback) described by Peter Morvilleas an excellent, practical companion to Ambient Findability. http://www.amazon.com/Building-Findable-Websites-Standards-Beyond/dp/ 0321526287/
    Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web (Voices That Matter) (Paperback) peter Morville: an absolute must-read for anyone who cares about information architecture, social software, or personal knowledge management. http://www.amazon.com/Tagging-People-powered-Metadata-Social-Voices/ dp/0321529170/

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